Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 50 Containment
"Thank you General for the reward!" Apu hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, secretly rejoicing in his heart that this General Tang Guo was really a generous person, and it seemed that he had chosen the right one this time.

"Okay, you can retreat!"

As soon as the backs of Apu and others disappeared at the door, Cui Hongdu came out from behind: "I bet these three guys won't come back after going out, it's a pity for those three good horses!"

"There are two hundred good horses in the stables in the village, and these three are still missing!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "And where can they escape? As long as we expose the fact that they killed the master by slavery, everyone will want them." There is no place for her to escape to the ends of the earth!"

"That's true, then why do you want them to do this?"

"Although this chaichuanzha is called Zha, there are all kinds of workshops such as blacksmith shop, water mill, carpenter's shop, tannery, etc. There are even workshops for making sauce and wine. It can be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs. Ke Guang A house with tools, without a craftsman, is just an empty decoration, useless."

"That's true!" Zhang Junyan interjected: "I just took a closer look, and the manor is really well managed. The surrounding fields are fertile, and there are several irrigation canals. There are vegetable gardens and orchards nearby, and there is a mill by the river. They are all full of chestnut trees, mulberry trees and lacquer trees, and my village by the Yi River is not as good as this one!"

"Really? How good is this Zhuangzi?" Shen Faseng was taken aback. Everyone knew that Zhang Junyan's great-grandfather was the disciple of Jia Sixie (the author of "Qi Min Yao Shu"). There are more than ten manors, the smallest of which has an annual income of three to five thousand bolts of silk, and the one beside the Yi River is the most outstanding among the ten or so manors, and the grain and silk collected every year is worth ten thousand bolts of silk. There are so many that it has the nickname of Wanpizhuang.

"En!" Zhang Junyan nodded: "In terms of management, this Zhuangzi is still not good, but the water and soil here are better, the fields are bigger, and the rivers and canals are all ready-made, and there is ready-made clay nearby, which can be burned. Tao, there are more mulberry and lacquer forests on the mountain, pigs can be raised in the chestnut forest, fish can be raised by the river, and bees can be raised on the mountain. If you give me three to five years to rectify it, it will definitely be better than that manor!"

"Hahaha, Junyan, are you planning to stay in Baekje as a farmer?" Shen Faseng laughed.

"Then why not?" Zhang Junyan said with a serious face: "Yougu has everything to do, if I can be the owner of this villa safely, then my trip to Baekje is really not in vain!"

Speaking of this, the eyes of the people on Zhang Junyan have also changed subtly, from the original ridicule and teasing to approval. After all, for everyone, the land is the source of wealth. Food, cloth, and silk all come from the land. A large amount of fertile land, carefully managed, self-sufficient, and passed on to future generations is everyone's dream.But such a dream was extremely difficult to realize in the Tang Dynasty. Regardless of the fact that everyone is proud and strong, the land at home belongs to the clan, and the land allocated to each individual is at most two to three hundred acres of land, like Chai Chuanzha. A large manor with a population of 5000 and 10,000+ acres of land around it. If it is not a relative of the emperor, it is a hero who founded the country. Ordinary rich people definitely don’t have it.
"Everyone!" Wang Wenzuo's voice pulled everyone back from their respective thoughts: "I just said that there is everything in this village, but if there is no one, it is useless in our hands, but if we can draw people Come back and it will be different.”

"Sanlang, don't you want to run this village? They are all from Baekje!" Yuan Aolie asked.

"So what?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Aren't Yuan Fei and Sanqiu all from Baekje? I plan to use this village as a model, and I will only charge [-]% of the land rent for Baekje people who are willing to stay." , the surrounding villages are the same, as long as you obey me and pay me [-]% of the land rent, I will not harm them, and I will try my best to protect them from other people's harm!"

Everyone present couldn't help gasping, Cui Hongdu asked: "Sanlang, this is not a joke, we only have more than a thousand people, we have more than enough self-defense, if we talk about other things, we are not enough!"

"Let's take it one step at a time. There are so many workshops and shops in this stockade. It's definitely not just for the people in the stockade. The surrounding villages also refer to this stockade. Things like rice milling, sauce making, and farming tools are all indispensable. , as long as we don’t get in the way, we will naturally have contacts. As I said before, if the Baekje people unite as one, we will definitely lose in the end, but if they can’t, then our chance will come!”

Hearing this, everyone nodded one after another. There are all kinds of workshops in Chai Chuan Zha, and they are definitely not only serving the thousands of residents. The demand will not disappear, as long as the artisans and shops are there, and they do not interfere or destroy, it will gradually recover over time.As long as this kind of commercial behavior resumes, it will be much more convenient to collect taxes or other things, and there is no need to fight villages one by one.Although everyone has not read Ma Zhe, they all understand the principle that the economic base determines the superstructure.

Yuan Ao stood up suddenly, and said with a smile: "Since it is so important, how can we only let those three guys do it, why not let me bring some troops to catch them back!"

"No need!" Wang Wenzuo signaled Yuan Aolie to sit down: "No one can stand without trust. Since we have promised to let them leave, then arresting them is a self-destructive promise? Don't worry, it is winter now, and there is heavy snow everywhere. , They have thousands of people and many are old and weak. They only have five days of rations. Where can they go? Which village has so much surplus food to take them in. In the end, they are just afraid of revenge from us massacring the city. They will come back naturally after two days of starvation , I sent the three of them there just as an introduction, to let them know that Rui is very safe!"

Zhenxian City.

Hei Fang Chang Zhi walked through the long and narrow corridor, and the sound of his hasty footsteps echoed in the corridor, as if he was in a state of anxiety at this moment——If there was no urgent matter, Sha Zha Xiangru would never send someone to call him, everyone knew that He is very busy preparing to send troops.

"I'm afraid we have to change our plan!" Sha Zha Xiangru didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "Chai Chuanzha has fallen!"

"Miaofu, you idiot, who did it?"

"I agree with the first half of your sentence, that guy is indeed an idiot!" Sha Zha Xiangru smiled, as if it was a rather interesting thing: "It was done by a team of Tang troops. They sent a team to hide in the night In the miscellaneous forest near Chaichuanzha, our team swaggered and stood up at the gate of Chaichuanzha after dawn the next day. That idiot mistakenly thought that there was an opportunity, so he sent troops to the enemy's flank and rear, trying to attack from both sides—"

(End of this chapter)